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Submit new inquiry for this projectInquiry #1: Bid Item 35 refers to 43,400 CY of Roadway Excavation. Please provide digital XML and DWG surface files for both the existing and design layers as well as Cross Sections in a PDF format in order to properly quantify this item.
Inquiry submitted 10/10/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review.
Response posted 10/11/2022
Response #2:Attention is directed to Addendum No. 1 dated October 28, 2022. Please place your bid in accordance with the current contract documents.
Response posted 10/31/2022
Inquiry #2: Sheet 147 Detour Roadway Quantities refer to 4,016.6 CY of Import Borrow. Please provide digital XML and DWG surface files for both the existing and design layers as well as Cross Sections in a PDF format in order to properly quantify this item.
Inquiry submitted 10/14/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review.
Response posted 10/17/2022
Response #2:Attention is directed to Addendum No. 1 dated October 28, 2022. Please place your bid in accordance with the current contract documents.
Response posted 11/04/2022
Inquiry #3: Has Caltrans conducted a geotechnical report and seismic investigation report? If so, will the State please provide such documentation.
Inquiry submitted 10/18/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review
Response posted 10/18/2022
Response #2:The Department has not conducted a project wide geotechnical report or seismic investigation report? A location specific GDR report is included in the Supplemental Project Information for the proposed CMS sign structure.
Attention is directed to 2-1.07, "Job Site and Document Examination" of the Standard Specifications.
Response posted 10/27/2022
Inquiry #4: If Caltrans has conducted a seismic investigation report and if the reports finds rock please incorporate Rock Excavation Bid Item & Quantity.
Inquiry submitted 10/18/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review.
Response posted 10/18/2022
Response #2:There has been no seismic investigation report performed for this project. Attention is directed to section 9-1.03, "Payment Scope" of the Standard Specifications. Please place your bid in accordance with the current bid documents.
Response posted 10/27/2022
Inquiry #5: Per Layout L-3 (Sheet No. 12) and per Madera Canal Bridge No. 41-0039 X-Section (Sheet No. 6 ), the bridge limits read 365+44.49 to 365+98.65. The stationing differs from P-2 Profile (Sheet No. 22) which reads 364+44.49 to 364+98.65. Please confirm which is correct and please provide any subsequent profile or section changes.
Inquiry submitted 10/19/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review.
Response posted 10/20/2022
Response #2:Attention is directed to Addendum No. 1 dated October 28, 2022. Please place your bid in accordance with the current contract documents.
Response posted 10/31/2022
Inquiry #6: The CA High Design Manual Section 850-34 dated December 30th, 2015 warns against specifying plastic pipe in areas with a potential for fire. This project lists Alternative Pipe Culvert in the Bid Schedule. Will Caltrans still allow for plastic pipe to be used on this project?
Inquiry submitted 10/20/2022
Response #1:Duplicate Inquiry
Response posted 10/20/2022
Inquiry #7: The CA High Design Manual Section 850-34 dated December 30th, 2015 warns against specifying plastic pipe in areas with a potential for fire. This project lists Alternative Pipe Culvert in the Bid Schedule. Will Caltrans still allow for plastic pipe to be used on this project?
Inquiry submitted 10/20/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review.
Response posted 10/20/2022
Response #2:Attention is directed to Addendum No. 1 dated October 28, 2022. Please place your bid in accordance with the current contract documents.
Response posted 10/31/2022
Inquiry #8: Per Incidental Take Permit included in the Information Handout, "Post- Construction, this temporary detour road will be removed, ground up, and used as cover for the permanent earthen shoulder backing on each side of the new State Route 41 roadway." Is it the state’s intent to utilize the material from the detour for shoulder backing. If so, please indicate where subsequent work is to be paid or provide a bid item.
Inquiry submitted 10/28/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review.
Response posted 10/28/2022
Response #2:Attention is directed to section 5-1.02, “Contract Components†of the Standard Specifications. Materials generated from the removal of the temporary detour are considered embankment and is the property of the contractor to incorporate into the work, dispose, or recycle in accordance with the contractor’s means and methods of performing the work. Please place your bid in accordance with the current contract documents.RAP placement within the temporary aquatic habitats is allowed (if desired) and shall be performed in accordance with section 19, "Earthwork of the Standard Specifications". Place your bid in accordance with the current contract documents.
Response posted 11/01/2022
Inquiry #9: Per Standard Specifications, Section 19-9.03 , “Do not place shoulder backing containing RAP within 100 feet measured horizontally from a culvert, watercourse, or bridge.†If temporary detour materials including RAP is to be utilized for Shoulder backing, does the State presume the Temporary Aquatic Habitats mentioned in the CTS Habitat Impacts Map do not constitute “a culvert, watercourse, or bridge�
Inquiry submitted 10/28/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review.
Response posted 10/28/2022
Response #2:RAP placement within the temporary aquatic habitats is allowed (if desired) and shall be performed in accordance with section 19, "Earthwork" of the Standard Specifications". Place your bid in accordance with the current contract documents.
Response posted 11/04/2022
Inquiry #10: Per Section 2-1.15B DISABLED VETERAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISES - Projects $5 Million or Less, contractors must “… Meet the goal shown in the Notice to Bidders...†to be found responsive. In concurrence with these parameters and in reference to disadvantaged business enterprises, does the 22% DBE Requirement posted on the Caltrans Advertisement Page also mean the goal must be met to be found responsive?
Inquiry submitted 11/09/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review.
Response posted 11/15/2022
Response #2:The bidder must meet the DBE goal of 22% to be responsive. The bidder can also be responsive, if the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) determines that bidder made a good faith effort when the bidder did not meet the DBE Contract set goal.
Furthermore, if the bidder does not meet the goal and OCR determines that the bidder did not make a good faith effort, we offer the bidder a reconsideration hearing so they can explain or provide information to the reconsideration committee members on why they think they made a good faith effort. Based on the hearing results, if committee overturns OCR decision of a no-good faith effort, then the bidder is considered to be responsive.
Response posted 11/15/2022
Inquiry #11: Per Special Provision Section 39-2.04B(3), "For HMA-O, the grade of asphalt binder must be PG 70-10. " Historically grade of asphalt binder for HMA-O is PG 64-16. Please confirm HMA-O on this project will require PG 70-10.
Inquiry submitted 11/30/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review
Response posted 12/01/2022
Response #2:Please place your bid in accordance with the current contract bid documents.
Response posted 12/04/2022
Inquiry #12: Please refer to plan sheets 168 and 230. Please confirm the items 127 and 131 scopes of work.
Inquiry submitted 12/01/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review.
Response posted 12/01/2022
Response #2:The two 4†conduits are existing conduits and required to be removed. Refer to Note 2 on sheet 230 of 234 of the contract plans and section 60-2.01A of the special provisions.
Response posted 12/06/2022
Inquiry #13: Please refer to plan sheet 230. Please confirm if there is a bid item for the 2ea 4" conduits shown or performed by others. There are insufficient details.
Inquiry submitted 12/01/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review.
Response posted 12/01/2022
Response #2:The two 4†conduits are existing conduits and required to be removed. Refer to Note 2 on sheet 230 of 234 of the contract plans and section 60-2.01A of the special provisions.
Response posted 12/06/2022
Inquiry #14: Please provide current pricing for quoted materials as noted in Section 87-6.02b(2)(a) since it is expired.
Inquiry submitted 12/02/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review.
Response posted 12/04/2022
Response #2:Attention is directed to 1-1.01, "GENERAL" of the Standard Specifications. After Contract approval, submit documents and direct questions to the Engineer. Orders, authorizations, and requests to the Contractor are by the Engineer. Place you bids in accordance to the current contract documents.
Response posted 12/06/2022
Inquiry #15: On special provisions page 77 it states that the contractor must grind and pave in the same shift for certain stations. Line three says from 446+50 to 488+50. Yet the cross sections and layout sheets show the job stopping at station 475+80. What happens if the final 1,270 LF as indicated on page 77?
Inquiry submitted 12/03/2022
Response #1:Your inquiry has been submitted for review.
Response posted 12/04/2022
Response #2:Please place your bid in accordance with the current contract documents. Attention is directed to 1-1.01, "GENERAL" of the Standard Specifications. After Contract approval, submit documents and direct questions to the Engineer. Orders, authorizations, and requests to the Contractor are by the Engineer.
Response posted 12/06/2022
Inquiry #16: THE Q-SHEET FOR HEAD WALLS 3-C,6-E,10-F, B 11-G,B AND 12, G,B. DO NOT ANY BAR REINFORCING STEEL. BUT CALTRANS STANDARD PLANS CALL OUT FOR REINFORCING STEEL. WILL THIS BE PAID FOR UNDER BID ITEM56 OR WILL IT BE PAID FOR UNDER BID ITEM 59 BAR REINFOCING STEEL?
Inquiry submitted 12/05/2022
Response #1:The bar reinforcement steel is included in the Bid item #56 (item # 510092 Structural Concrete, Headwall) as per standard specification sections 51, "Concrete structure", 51-1.01A "Summary" and section 9-1.03, "Payment Scope". Please place your bid in accordance with the current contract bid documents.
Response posted 12/06/2022
The information provided in the responses to bidder inquiries is not a waiver of Section 2-1.07, "JOB SITE AND DOCUMENT EXAMINATION" of the Standard Specifications or any other provision of the contract, nor to excuse the contractor from full compliance with the contract. Bidders are cautioned that subsequent responses or contract addenda may change a previous response.